Long fermentation tea "Apple-sage sonata"

If there is an opportunity to collect viburnum, then I recommend making tea with it, but not a lot, to try. You may not like it.
I will not describe the taste, because I do not know how, and my taste is peculiar.

[Volodislavir]

Volodislavir, I rarely do clean. Mostly mixes, including viburnum leaf, are in some, but I don't know the pure taste. Maybe I will, thanks for the recommendation!

Why clean?
Apple tree + sage + viburnum.
You asked me in the next topic?

Time passed, I didn't remember right away.

[Volodislavir]

Volodislavir, Yuri K, so I also want to try to add viburnum for a sample. I have an unusual viburnum in the village garden. The berry is not red, not orange-red and not light red, as I see in others. And as ... dark as a cherry. Very tasty. The aroma is still vibrant, bright. I fall asleep with sugar, ferment and add in winter like syrup to water. True, only I drink. All the rest of my viburnum "stinking".
The leaf is probably crumbling, right?

The leaf is probably crumbling, right?

I don't remember anymore. It seems not.
But he did it like Ivan-tea without freezing and scrolling in a meat grinder. Rubbed with handles, according to the classics.

All the rest of my viburnum "stinking".
The leaf is probably crumbling, right?

Here in the mixes, I didn’t notice the "stench". And I collected a little sheet for mixes, just because of hyper-dryness, a fragile leaf, no juiciness at all. I lay on withering, so every half hour I stirred it up, dry, you don't understand whether it is withering or dries up)
I didn't like it at all for making

[Yuri K]

Yuri K, I have the latest autumn leaves, too, all the same. I didn’t "wither" them. I threw it in the freezer. And when she thawed it, she stirred it up so that the leaves dry out to the degree - "wet, but do not stick to the hand"

[Radushka]

Radushka, and the summer did not differ much from the autumn, as far as I remember) It will be necessary to look at this matter more closely this season)
I have already set up the plans, for a cart and a small trolley it has sharply warmed up with us, for another month and ...

It became sharply warmer here

we too. Second day +18 in the afternoon. But, the snow still lies. The crust is so ... strong. True, they promise rain. So it will wash away.
I, too, have plans ... GOMADIE)))
I am sincerely sorry that you did not find an alder! Such yummy!

[Radushka]

Radushka, no, well, no, and that's it. The other day we specially went to the riverside lines, to look for alder, and to collect maple sap. They collected juice, alder, even sulfur - did not find it. But we have a lot of aspen, poplar and elm.

My new time-tested recipe

Fermented tea "Autumn Breeze" from the forest blackberry leaf (Yuri K)

Please tell me, dear tea makers, is it possible to use sage from the garden, planted from seeds?

[Zlatushka]

Zlatushka, Akakzhezh! What then to plant him on? Well on lek. the raw material is clear, it is necessary. And for tea, ah-ah-ah, how well you can use it, so we do it.

Thank you so much)

[Zlatushka]

Zlatushka, exactly according to the recipe, someone tried, the wrong effect. In other variations, it is probably possible, but not all types seem to be tasty.

Yuri K, thanks, I will experiment.

Unfortunately, we do not have sage. Only vegetable garden does not always grow. This year, only one bush remained, frozen out. And it cannot be compared with the Crimean, free sage. So I'll just lick my lips at this tea.

And it cannot be compared with the Crimean, free sage. So I'll just lick my lips at this tea.

This is not the Crimean subspecies
"Flowering and fruiting time: Blossoms in June-August, fruits ripen in July-September.
Lifespan: Perennial plant.
Habitat: Dry-steppe sage lives in the steppes, in dry meadows, forest edges, along the edges of roads and fields, in wastelands, near dwellings.
Distribution: European species entering the eastern edge of the range into Western Siberia and Northern Kazakhstan. In our country, it grows in the southern half of the European part, Ciscaucasia, in the south of Western Siberia. In Central Russia, it is found, probably in all areas. In the black earth zone, this is a common plant. In the border areas of the Non-Black Earth Region, it is rare, mainly on limestone outcrops and sands; to the north only along the slopes of the railways. "
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Good day to all. Didn't find one like the sage in the recipe. But I found another one: he does not have flowers on the stem, but in bunches, like skirts, pink. Found the name - whorled sage. Who tried it? The leaves on the stem are small and there are not many of them, but those from the ground are good, a little less than the palm. I forgot to smell the sheet. Although, a dense ridge of sage grows near the pharmacy, as in the recipe (I walk with greedy eyes ...). Crumpled leaf - aroma of greenery. I'll go to the pharmacy to smell camphor. And in the country she planted nutmeg (only this was on sale), then I read that it gives bitterness ...

Crumpled leaf - aroma of greenery.

So this is not the sage, or not at all
Here are the glades of my sage, they will not disappear anywhere, and this year is rich in it as never before

[Yura]

this year is rich in him as never before

Lucky!
Yura, a closer photo of your sage wealth, eh? Face, profile, flowers, leaves.

a closer photo of your sage wealth, eh? Face, profile, flowers, leaves.

In Google, it's easy to look at the search when requesting Dry steppe sage.But I'll try to shoot on occasion

Yur, I didn't make tea like that, but I never saw what sage looks like.
That year I planted two species, this year they bloom with might and main This is a perennial Voznesensky, there was still a two-year old nutmeg, it is already fading. So much good is lost

the glades of my sage

Good day. And my glades themselves are the same, but there is no sage, because the zone is not a steppe. But I saw a very similar picture at myself - it was Veronica. The glade is all in it. I read it, typed (it is easy to assemble, according to the Kaporsky principle, there are enough leaves, I didn't even pick flowers). Smells good after first freezing.

nutmeg biennial

Also at the beginning of summer, I planted two colors, and then I read here that tea from this variety is bitter. Well, okay, let it decorate the outskirts of the dacha and attract bees.

And in search of sage, I became a botanist. I found this at home and let's study the pictures on the Internet

Thought the whorled sage

Or catnip - catnip

As the saying goes: find the differences ... and the leaves are the same. It turned out that I had a zopnik. But I am an engineer by education and by service. But how interesting all this is and all thanks to the tea! It is not for nothing that many write that the very process of searching for and preparing tea is more exciting than the result obtained.

In Google, it is easy to look at the search when requesting Dry-steppe sage

Just a couple of times it already happened that people collect St. John's wort, but drink goldenrod, collect Ivan tea, and as a result they drink the wrong thing. And in different areas the same herbs often differ in appearance. But, no problem, I'll google it.

[Tricia]

Tricia, today at a gallop for mushrooms before work in the night hit the road! I took it especially for you, maybe you can tell it from the photo from your smartphone. He frantically stinks of camphor when rubbing a leaf!

So much good is lost

Flax, I already wrote that I can't even imagine what will come out of other varieties (someone wrote for a long time that they did not impress, but that was not about the wild speech was 100%)
Above, Nastya von took a closer picture of my favorite

I saw a very similar picture at myself - it was Veronica. The glade is all in it. I read, typed

Oh I don’t know ... I don’t know ... Rasten not specific, medicinal. It also grows here, but I do not consider Veronica long-leaved as a tea
Here she is close, she has a beautifully predatory leaf

It would seem that there is such a variety in nature, but you start looking for something - so many similarities. I have a lot of

And again, not sage - an ordinary bruise.

Plant specific

"Veronica herb is used not only for the treatment of diseases or their prevention. It is also used as a seasoning for main courses, added to liqueurs and cognacs and used in the manufacture of cosmetics." So I'll make one batch for the trial. After the second defrost, a frank caramel smell.
We use a lot of medicinal herbs for tea, the main thing is that there is no poison in the composition. The same bruise is itself poisonous, but in pharmacology it is used and its honey is one of the best. But I will definitely not make tea out of it. It seems to me that if you read about any plant - each has something medicinal, the main thing is the method of application and dose.

she has a predatory leaf

And what a predatory aloe, but I have its juice - both in the nose and in the mouth ...

I already wrote earlier that a whole clearing was planted near the pharmacy



Well, I really want it to be sage! The bulk has already bloomed, and this self-seeding is still blooming throughout the glade, I collected the seeds. I crumpled a leaf - a specific smell of greenery, flowers also smell, nice. I bought camphor alcohol at the pharmacy - my husband and I smell distantly of pine needles.
Yuri, is this a sage?

[dalida]

dalida, yes, this is a real sage! Now after freezing it three times !!!
In our steppes it grows uncontrollably. And along the railway line, when you go by train, right up to the Volga (Samara, Volgograd) it can be seen in clusters when it blooms.

real sage

Well, as they say, hello sage!

after freezing

No-no-no: the place of growth is a pharmacy-near the road-city But I will still pick up the seeds without measure, in the spring I will sow the perimeter of the dacha, especially since it does not require much care. It probably won't bloom in the first year, but there will be greenery.
Thanks for identifying!

No-no-no: the place of growth is a pharmacy-near the road-city

I mean try how the scent will change! It's just a test and not in cooking

try it

And this is possible, even necessary! While there are "youth" blooming. The place is crowded, will have to be very late in the evening ... with scissors quickly, quickly ... "mow".
Thanks for the advice!